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Temperatures will rise across the nation through next week before the next round of blowtorch heat arrives after the weekend.

Heatwave conditions over Europe will push into Britain nudging temperatures towards the 30C (86F)-mark in parts, according toWeatherAction.comforecaster Piers Corbyn.

He said: “The first week of June looks like dishing up a bit of a mixed bag, although it will start to turn warmer and more settled there will be some more thunderstorms around.

“However it is from the second week of the month onwards when we expect to see a return to heatwave conditions, very hot weather is expected over Europe and some of that is going to influence the UK.

“We expect this to continue through to mid-month after which it will continue to be vary warm with another heatwave situation expected at some point.

“Temperatures could hit 30C (86F) next weekend, so apart from a slightly cooler start and end to the month we expect a blazing June of sunshine and dry weather.”

Temperatures will hover in the low to mid-20s across much of the UK through the weekend and into next week, the Met Office said.

Much of the country will enjoy fresher drier conditions with plenty of sunshine away from the east coast which will be cloudier.

Met Office spokeswoman Nicola Maxey said: “There will be some quite heavy, thundery downpours in Scotland, northern Ireland and along the east coast on Saturday although elsewhere it is looking fresher and sunnier.

“Sunday will bring more sunshine with highs of 25C (77F) possible in parts and again it will feel less humid and much more comfortable, especially at night.

It states: “It will be warmest in the west, but cooler along North Sea coasts, with some mist and fog lingering here. These conditions are likely to last through the weekend, but as we move towards the middle of the month the forecast becomes much more uncertain.

“There is always a risk of scattered heavy showers and thunderstorms could affect southern and western parts at times, but there will be some dry and bright weather here too.”

Hot weather last month is likely to have brought a record-breaking set of May temperature and sunshine records, according to government forecasters.

The provisional average daily maximum temperature for May was 17C (62.6F) making it the warmest since 1910 beating the 16.9C (62.42F) set in 1992, the Met Office said.

More than 245 hours of sunshine also brought the sunniest May in records dating back to 1929 beating 1989 when 241.7 hours of sunshine baked Britain during the first month of spring.

Tim Legg, spokesman for the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre, said: “Increased sunshine during the month has helped to keep daytime temperatures high, leading to it provisionally being the warmest May since records began in 1910.